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This edited collection contains eighteen interdisciplinary chapters and is organized into three sections that center on Zemeckis' directorial and artistic choices, the philosophical issues expressed in his oeuvre, and the historical aspect of his films.
List of contents
Part I: The Filmmaker
1)"You Gotta Get Their Friendship, Their Trust, then Get Their Money": Social Class and Financial Corruption in Used Cars, Eric Sterling
2) Till Death Do Us Part: Romancing the Stone, Death Becomes Her, and the Romance Genre, Michael Charlton
3)Used Cars, Flying Cars and Streetcars: The Role of Transportation and Capitalism in the Films of Robert Zemeckis, Siobhan Lyons
4)Deconstructing the Femme Fatale: Zemeckis's Ventures into Horror, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
5) The Horror, the Horror: Freud, Horror, and the Uncanny in the Motion Capture Productions of Robert Zemeckis, Paul Johnson
6) Allied: The Longstanding Relationship Between Composer Alan Silvestri and Director Robert Zemeckis, Kingsley Marshall
Part II: The Philosopher
7)Luck, Happiness, and Forrest Gump, David K. Chan
8)The Things We Can't See: Kierkegaard's Three Stages and the Crisis of Faith in The Polar Express, Nicole Pramik
9)White Christian Heroes and Others in Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, and Welcome to Marwen, Christian Jimenez
10) Romancing the Male Gaze: Erotic Desire and Scopophilia in Romancing the Stone and Death Becomes Her, Sue Matheson
11)Contact with Reality, Flight from Truth: An Exploration of Objective Truth and Morality, Anneke Murely and Adam Barkman
12)Forrest Gump Seen Critically Through Crip Theory, Christopher H. Ketcham
Part III: The Historian
13) How To Do Things with Slow Cinema in Hollywood: Temporal Duration in the Diegetic and Nondiegetic Worlds of Cast Away, David LaRocca
14)Time Warps: The Plasticity of History in the Eyes of Robert Zemeckis, Francis Mickus
15)Do You Speak French? An Exploration of the Portrayal of France, Its People and Culture in The Walk, Ludovic A. Sourdot
16)Real and Fictional Ghost Stories in What Lies Beneath, Antonio Sanna
17)Neither Art Nor Love Will Save Us: The Power of Fantasy and the Fantasy of Power in the Wake of Loss of Self and Memory in Welcome to Marwen, Kwasu Tembo
18)"Well, You Coming?" The Polar Express in Popular Culture, Carl H. Sobocinski
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Edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna - Contributions by Adam Barkman; David K. Chan; Michael Charlton; Christian Jimenez; Paul Johnson; Christopher H. Ketcham; David LaRocca; Siobhan Lyons; Kingsley Marshall; Sue Matheson; Francis Mickus; Anneke Murle
